NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Might Stick With 4 GB GDDR5 VRAM and 256-bit Bus - Preliminary Specs Indicate 993 MHz Clock

NVIDIA recently released two graphics card based on their latest Maxwell core architecture, the GeForce GTX 980 and GeForce GTX 970. The GeForce GTX 980 existence the fastest offering while the GeForce GTX 970 hits the sweet spot at $329 Usa. While its getting hard to obtain these cards through retail channels, new information on the tertiary GeForce 900 series card has emerged from Zauba.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Allegedly Features 4 GB VRAM and 256-Scrap Bus

Around a calendar month ago, it was reported that NVIDIA'due south GeForce GTX 960 might have been postponed for launch after since NVIDIA was already facing issues to deliver GM204 in quantity to retail channels. With the quantity bug existence resolved to some extent, it seems like in a month or two by Q1 2022, nosotros will be getting a third GeForce Maxwell offering for the desktop ecosystem in the form of the GeForce GTX 960. While we have little information around the specifications of this card, we exercise have hints that NVIDIA might just exist using their new GM204 on this graphics card.

Although the data posted by Zauba is a month quondam, information technology suggests that the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card volition stick with a 4 GB GDDR5 VRAM, operating across a 256-scrap omnibus interface. The clock speeds which are certainly not indicative of the final product are rated at 993 MHz for core (Stock) and 6008 MHz (6.00 GHz) clock speed for memory. NVIDIA might become for faster clock speeds specially the memory clocks pumping them effectually 7.00 GHz every bit the reference clock speeds for their desktop course GM204 cards but we don't know this for certain. As for the core specifications, NVIDIA recently introduced 2 mobile chips, the GTX 980M and GTX 970M. Both of these chips are too based on the GM204 core architecture but have been cut down to a greater extent.

The GeForce GTX 900M serial have given us a hint at what could be the future of the desktop based sub-$300 parts. As noted in the specifications, the GeForce GTX 980M features 1536 cores with 96 TMUs, 64 ROPs and a 256-bit bus clocked at 1038 MHz for the core and 5.0 GHz (effective) for memory. The second chip is more than cutting down with 1280 CUDA cores, eighty TMUs, 48 ROPs and a 192-bit bus clocked at 924 MHz for cadre and five.0 GHz (constructive) clock for memory. Now this goes off to show that Maxwell has a lot of room for more SKUs and NVIDIA won't even have to rely on the GM206 chip for the GeForce GTX 960 graphics card. But here's the deal, there are 2 cut down parts below the GTX 970, 1 with 1536 cores and the other with 1280 cores. And to brand it spicy, the GTX 970 also has two SM deviation betwixt the faster GeForce GTX 980. Summing upward the SMs, we accept the GTX 970M with 10 SM units enabled, GTX 980M with 12, GTX 970 with 13 and GTX 980 with 16 SM units enabled.

At present this part is entirely speculation simply from what I can see and retrieve, the Kepler generation had ii *sixty parts. The GeForce GTX 660 and GeForce GTX 660 Ti. The GeForce GTX 660 Ti had the GK104 core while the GTX 660 had the GK106 core. Now this was a huge difference between the cards. Both cards relied on a 192-bit bus interface with 3 GB VRAM. This time we might come across one or even ii cards, the GTX 960 Ti and GTX 960. The cost for the faster GeForce GTX 960 volition almost certainly exist $249 US if in that location are two parts while the other would price around $199 – $229 United states. Still, as indicated in the data from Zauba, the card is indicated without the "TI" hence at that place may only be 1 carte du jour with a 4 GB VRAM and 256-fleck bus. The pricing of the card volition still be based effectually $249 US since the GTX 970 is close to the $329 US mark making both one of the most competitive offerings by NVIDIA. GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 Rumored Specifications:

Model	GeForce GTX 980	GeForce GTX 970	GeForce GTX 960	GeForce GTX 970M	GeForce GTX 980M
Compages	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell	Maxwell
GPU	GM204	GM204	GM204	GM204	GM204
CUDA cores	2048	1664	TBC	1280	1536
Texture Units	128	104	TBC	80	96
Raster Devices	64	64	TBC	48	64
Clock Speed	1126/1216 MHz	1051/1178 MHz	993/1050 MHz (Preliminary)	924 MHz	1038 MHz
Memory Bus	256-bit	256-bit	256-flake	192-bit	256-bit
Amount of retentivity	4 GB GDDR5	iv GB GDDR5	4 GB GDDR5	three.half-dozen GB GDDR5	8.4 GB GDDR5
Memory Frequency	7010 MHz	7010 MHz	6008 MHz (Preliminary)	5000 MHz	5000 MHz
Retentivity Bandwidth	224 GB / southward	224 GB / s	192 GB / s	120 GB / s	160 GB / s